PODIATRIST TEAMS WITH MICROSOFT AND SENSORIA HEALTH TO DEVELOP WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

“The gold standard for helping diabetes-related injuries heal is protecting them with a boot,” says Dr. David Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. “The problem is that the disease has stripped many patients of their ability to feel the pain of their injuries, so people often tend to underestimate the risk and remove their boot too soon, worsening their condition.” 

 

Dr. David Armstrong

 

To combat this eventuality, many doctors today lock their patients in their boots or in casts. However, in the minds of the team working at Rancho Los Amigos, this option is punitive. “What if you could take the best of wearable technology, the best of prosthetics and orthotics, and the best in cloud computing and create a solution that allows physicians to work on a treatment with their patients, rather than forcing it on them?” continues Dr. Armstrong. “That’s what we’ve set out to do at Rancho Los Amigos with Sensoria Health and Microsoft Azure.”

 

Source: Microsoft

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News